What’s your bracelet making story?
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DanceKnotz
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1 month ago by DanceKnotz
From your average spiral staircases to complex alpha with a color change almost every knot, there is a wide range of bracelets. Everyone, from beginner to moderator to administrator, please comment how you started making bracelets. I bet 90% started with Chinese staircases at summer camp, just like me. I was pretty young when I started, then I picked it up from just staircases and braids to finding written tutorials on the internet (for some reason I didn’t trust videos lol)…then I learned how to read patterns and *dIscOvErEd* Masha Knots, and the rest is history! How about you guys? 😄
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ArmletBean
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1 month ago by ArmletBean
I started when my sister gave me a bracelet that was too small for her. Then I started making fishtails and braids and now I’m making patterns from here.
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Selah_Ross
Bracelet King
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1 month ago by Selah_Ross
i was on here, and enjoying the patterns, and my friend who got me on here got mad at me for not actually braceleting, thus i got into braceleting
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Grenda
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1 month ago by Grenda
I started making just macrame bracelets when I was about 5 years old because my older sisters taught me how to make them. After a couple of years I started making more complex normals and learning how to read patterns from kinsey b’s tutorials. Then two years ago I discovered braceletbook and learned how to make alphas from Masha Knots tutorials.
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GiuseppeK
Bracelet King
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1 month ago by GiuseppeK
My favorite ex got me started at a relatively late stage in life (early 30s). Much as I wish it could've been otherwise, she usually wasn't there to give me any other guidance, so had to figure out most of it on my own. It would've been a basic chevron, and her keyring at the time was a metal loop with all the hideous aborted previous efforts of mine until I got it right. More than just about anything else, I wish she could see the monster she'd created now. |
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Regier
Bracelet King
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4 weeks ago by Regier
My aunt gave me a bracelet kit for my birthday when I was 8. The kit came with string, an instruction book, and a bracelet wheel thingy. It took me a whole two years to figure out how to make a candy stripe bracelet from that book!!! 😂 Looking at the book now I’m wondering why it took me so long to figure that out. When I made all the patterns in the book and got bored of them, I started looking for more patterns to make. That’s when I found braceletbook. And now I have been making bracelets, off and on, for about 6-7 years now. It’s become one of my favorite hobbies, but it doesn’t top reading!
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skytech
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4 weeks ago by skytech
I started when I was… 9 or so, so like a year ago, and I started with a zipper bracelet (like it’s just forward backward knots (and vice versa) onto base string but the knots are with two strings at a time, and then I did chevron and for some reason I can do up to 16 string patterns and I have NEVER EVER done a candy stripe? Idk why
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just_mere
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4 weeks ago by just_mere
I really wish I knew my exact story lol. But like every other kid, I learned the basic Chinese staircase, chevron, and candy stripe at camps. But I got really into Rainbow loom bracelets for a while, and stopped (as in, REALLLYYYY into them) making string ones. Discovered BraceletBook by some miracle (Pinterest I think?) and decided I needed to know everything I could possibly know and perfect my skills and become great ✨
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rz
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3 weeks ago by rz
Met my bff for life at a camp and she taught me how to make a Chinese staircase. (Still have my og lol) and then I fell in love with candy stripes in the middle of math class and have been trying new things ever since!
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puggyz
Bracelet King
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2 weeks, 5 days ago by puggyz
In summer 2023 I was watching summer 2019 Vsco era videos and I thought chevron bracelets looked super cool. My sister had old embroidery floss so over the next day or so I was attempting to master the chevron. Then after that I thought myself how to read patterns and it escalated from there.
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willaroo
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2 weeks, 3 days ago by willaroo
i wanted to make a flower bracelet that i’d seen online and it was too hard for me, but i decided to try making other kinds of knotted bracelets instead so i looked up how to make friendship bracelets and made my first candy stripe from a tutorial! i’ve never actually made a chinese staircase. i looked up tulip bracelet patterns and found one on braceletbook and joined!! this was about a year and a half ago
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Ester_25OO
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1 week, 4 days ago by Ester_25OO
When I was about 9 or 10, my mom showed me how to make a stripe bracelet. I didn't really understand it and left it at that. Then I somehow came across a Czech YouTuber and learned it all from her.
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superme123
Bracelet King
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1 week, 2 days ago by superme123
Started with chinese staircase and candystripes at summer camp, but they never came out good. I wanted to learn how to properly make bracelets, and I stumbled upon Braceletbook. I watched Mashaknots's videos, and 2 years later, here I am as a bracelet king, hoping to become a Modereator soon.
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Paws14
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1 week, 1 day ago by Paws14
I started gymnastics and I was wearing a bracelet made out of rubber bands, my coach said that it was very nice. Then later on, my friend gave me a candy stripe bracelet, so I started making bracelets from Masha knots videos.
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Paws14
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1 week, 1 day ago by Paws14
That was just last year September
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Sophietje2
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1 week, 1 day ago by Sophietje2
It is so interesting to read all the stories! I got a blue french book for my birthday when i was 9 years old and made many bracelets from it. It got lost when i was moving house but a year and a half a go i found it again and it gave me back so many memories, i discovered this amazing online community i never new existed with so many more paterns and inspiration. I am very gratefull for that. ❤️
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imcoolasf
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1 day, 23 hours ago by imcoolasf
Just a couple of months ago!! I found a tutorial on Pinterest and just kinda started making them lol
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